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[penguinfaery]

On a player to player basis, I would like to state that making your character GAY, generally, is not something that automatically makes them OOC.

Ok, to avoid as much wank as possible, first this is a general rant. There are character that are so painfully straight it IS OOC for them to simply be gay. (Or at least close enough you shouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole unless you have things REALLY worked out and are a REALLY good rper. For example, from what I know of say...Tony Stark, that'd take some damn good character development...)

And this is not related to people who make their characters gay and suddenly they're wanting to play dress up with the closest females, have no problem being super effeminate, and talk with sparkles.

And I also get that what bothers a lot of people is just the general AMOUNT of gay, because it's obviously WAY off from reality. Yeah, fictions usually way off the other way, but RP has more then meet over compensation. But the single rper alone is not responsible for all the gay out there, and it's kinda shitty to call them a bad rper for everyone else rping sins.

But being gay, period, for most characters doesn't not equate OOC alone. Sorry to break it to you but gay (and bi) comes in all shapes and sizes, and being gay doesn't always make you a flouncing pansy (and on the flip side, being a flouncing pansy doesn't alway make you gay. See: Howl Pendragon) I've seen gay men who remind me more of Wolverine then Northstar. Indian Jones then Speed Racer. I could go on, but I think you get the point.

And if the rper is worth anything, unless you want to get in their characters pants, it really shouldn't matter. Friends, enemies....all rping doesn't have to be about romance (And this is from someone who's favorite thing to rp is romance)

I'm not saying people can't make characters gay AND OOC. And I'm more then willing to admit that a lot of times the two do go hand and hand (or, perhaps, gay is just so common and OOC are just so common they over lap enough), but please stop with the assumption that gay=OOC by default. (For most characters)

And I'm trying to decided about posting this to BRPS...

Comments

[jaydesummers.livejournal.com]

That's in a good RP. There are several RPs out there that make it next to impossible to RP a female or a straight character. Hell, there are RPs that ban females altogether. Unfortunately, you need those straight, female or uninterested characters to bring balance to a game. That will help out but if there are plot issues or just massive amounts of wank then it's a smidge bit in the air.

I never said anything about it labelling someone a bad RPer. I just stated it makes it harder for other people to get involved. Maybe if people were more open to playing the female characters that they deem as wishy washy and improve on the flaws of the character in question (Rinoa, Garnet, etc.) then it would make for some interesting RPing.

[penguinfaery.livejournal.com]

Yeah, i wish just stating that's not really what I'm talking about her. I'm not saying that's not a flaw, but this is more about people being deemed bad rpers simply because they make a character gay.

Althought I have to see, I have ran into games that work without females, and I would never force myself to play a character I don't like just to play a female. Then again I don't have an issue finding females I enjoy.

[jaydesummers.livejournal.com]

And that's not right but the people doing that are either elitist or plain and out right bad RPers themselves. Beggars can't be choosers but when people like the poster of that secret in rp_secrets say shit like that, I hope they're ready to deal with the consequences of what they've said. It's a shitstorm waiting to happen.